• Cyber protection

What’s keeping our top CEOs awake at night

Australia is a highly “attractive target for active and malicious” cyber threats, new Telstra boss Vicki Brady warns, as top chief executives agonise over the growing tensions with China and the serious risks their companies face.

• Aug 30, 2022
• Lucas Baird, Jessica Sier and Angela Macdonald-Smith

• Earnings season

IPH gets Smart & Biggar to get...bigger

Chief executive Andrew Blattman said IPH will consider other acquisitions in Canada, which remains fragmented despite the presence of some global players.

• Aug 18, 2022
• Jemima Whyte

• Opinion
• Sharemarket

Best and worst sectors for FY 2022

Which areas and companies performed most strongly, and what does it mean for your portfolio?

• Jul 12, 2022
• Elio D'Amato

• Earnings season

Trademark lawyer IPH seeks more acquisitions, customer referrals

The $1.8 billion intellectual property group says its acquisition strategy is coming through in the results.

• Aug 19, 2021
• Jemima Whyte

• Dividends

Where to chase dividends outside large caps

Investors looking to make the most of a shrinking payout pool are starting to search outside the top 100. These are the small- and mid-cap stocks fundies like.

• Oct 3, 2020
• William McInnes

• Street Talk

HWL Ebsworth prepares for $1 billion-plus float, hires bankers

Australia's biggest law firm by number of partners, HWL Ebsworth, is readying for a sharemarket float that could value it at more than $1 billion and make its equity partners millions. 

• Aug 23, 2020
• Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd

• Accounting

Grant Thornton buys R&D tax division of Glasshouse Advisory

Mid-tier firm Grant Thornton sees opportunity in R&D tax advice amid the COVID-19 downturn as it purchases specialist consultancy Glasshouse Advisory.

• May 20, 2020
• Edmund Tadros

• Analysis
• Investing

The reason brokers are not pumped about CSL

Powerful brokers think one product line has driven CSL's surprise share price rise and is also likely to be behind any falls.

• Feb 13, 2020
• Tom Richardson

• Legal profession

IPH creates $1.7b listed legal giant

The services group has successfully completed its $192 million hostile takeover of Xenith IP, bringing the nine-month battle to an end.

• Aug 15, 2019
• Patrick Durkin

• Hedge funds

Why the best performing hedge fund is selling

LHC has emerged as the top performing hedge fund in 2018-19, but now it's selling some of its hottest stocks because prices are too high.

• Jul 24, 2019
• Jonathan Shapiro and Vesna Poljak

• Legal profession

Xenith IP accepts IPH's $192m takeover offer

An epic three-way tussle in the sleepy IP sector has been settled.

• Apr 12, 2019
• Patrick Durkin

IPH goes hostile with $175m takeover for Xenith

Australia's largest listed IP firm, IPH has launched a $175 million hostile bid to acquire competitor Xenith.

• Updated Mar 12, 2019
• Patrick Durkin

• Legal profession

IP sector showdown: IPH, QANTM, Xenith trade blows

The CEOs of the country's three listed IP firms have been likened to late-night revellers determined to hook-up but with the lights about to come up at the party, one will miss out.

• Updated Feb 24, 2019
• Patrick Durkin

• Electricity

Webjet, Greencross surprise inclusions in ASX200 carbon bad boys: MSCI

Utilities, energy and mining companies such as AGL Energy, Origin Energy and South32 aren't the only bad boys of the ASX200 when it comes to carbon risk.

• Updated Oct 30, 2018
• Ben Potter

• Street Talk

Listed legal king IPH and the QANTM theory

If there was ever a race between the three listed intellectual property law firms, it's time to call a clear winner.

• Updated Aug 8, 2018
• Sarah Thompson and Anthony Macdonald